How to cook Halva at home?
There are many recipes for making halva, according to which you can easily cook at home. A meat grinder, a coffee grinder, and even a food processor are used to make halva. Sunflower seeds or nuts are crushed. That means nothing complicated, and almost everyone has a meat grinder. All ingredients can be easily found in any store. Below are the most common halva VA from sunflower seeds, peanuts, walnuts. Here is a recipe for making this kind of halva.
Halva Ingredients from Sunflower Seeds :
- 2 cups seeds;
- 1.5 cups flour;
- 1 glass of sugar;
- 1/3 cup water;
- 150 grams of sunflower oil.
Wash the seeds and grind them two times through a meat grinder with a fork. Separately, heat the red flour in the enameled dish without fat (it always needs to be stirred). Mix the flour with the seeds, and then a few times, we turn everything through a meat grinder.
Cooking Syrup:
- Pour all the sugar with water.
- Bring to a boil over high heat.
- Remove the foam and cook until the taste of raw water disappears.
Next, remove the syrup from the heat, pour in the sunflower oil, shake it, add the ground seeds, stir quickly and transfer to the mold.
Place the fridge for the fridge under a press. The taste is fantastic, and the bran is not felt at all!
1. Peanut halva
You need the following ingredients to make peanut halva:
- 2 cups fried peanuts;
- 1 glass of sugar;
- 1.5 cups flour;
- 1/3 cup water;
- 1 bag of vanillin.
Crush the peanuts in a coffee grinder, food processor, electric meat grinder, or scroll 3-4 times through a meat grinder. Fry the flour in a pan until golden brown. Mix with fried peanuts (ripe). Pour a glass of oil in all of this until evenly colored and mixed well.
Pour the sugar into an aluminum pan and add a glass of water, salt, fire; let it boil. Make sure not to burn. Then pour the prepared mixture and mix more quickly. Let cool.
2. Walnut halva
We will need:
- 150 grams of peeled walnuts;
- 100 grams of butter;
- 200 grams of sugar;
- 400 grams of milk;
- Corn starch 15 g.
Add the corn starch mixed with the cold milk to the hot milk syrup (in a 1: 5 ratio) and, stirring, bring to a boil. Fry the walnut kernels in half until dark brown and then transfer to a pan, pour in the cooked mass, and tightly close the id. Wrap the lacquer edges with a towel and heat the mass for another 25-30 minutes. After heat, remove the lacquer, mix well, pour the mass on a plate and sprinkle with crushed cinnamon. Serve the halva nuts hot You can see, the recipes are a bit different. Some of these include milk, starch, while others do not. Sometimes turmeric is mixed with honey, butter, vanilla, eggs, wheat flour, and even noodles. Cinnamon and sometimes algae are added to some types of halva. Therefore, at your request, You can add certain ingredients to any of the suggested recipes and change the taste of the halva accordingly. Give it a try; check it out. So you can choose the one you like.
Instead of sunflower seeds or peanuts, you can use our familiar nuts, pesto, and other types of nuts. Whatever it is, the halva will turn out very tasty.
When using honey, it must be warmed. You can test the preparation as follows: Pour one drop of honey in cold water – if the drop is thick, the honey is ready. Then the honey must be removed from the fire, pour the nuts in it, mix. Quickly put the pre-oil in a pot while the halva is hot. If desired, the nuts can be crushed, leaving large ones.